Confirmation that the insane will prevail

This is about the most amazing piece of work I've ever seen. I only wonder what wonderful evilness went through someone's head when they thought of these scary ass clown masks and still scenery of bad versus evil. If I had to guess... Dark Knight.

Maybe next time some of you won't question my evil thoughts of pure insanity or better yet maybe just limit your questions to none. Let's just enjoy this greatness in silence. Dude, now watch the actual one on the Philips site (select Ultra High Definition & full screen): http://www.cinema.philips.com/

Peer Pressure

Another one tries to jump...
to Queen's Another one bites the dust.

Rhinos, whales and blenders

This is your one warning. Do not read this post if you are normal. It is not for you.





Photo: Qfamily: Flickr



Hubby called and said he was working late tonight. No big deal, I'll just go chill at the lab until he's done. So, I walk in and he looks really busy. He told me a rhino just attacked him and he had to put it down. So I ask him, "uhh... Where's the Rhino?"

Hubby: "I put him in the blender."

He tells me to watch the door because the clean-up crew is coming around soon and he didn't want them fucking around in here right now. I asked who was in the other room.

Hubby: "That's the security guard. He's gotta go in the blender too. He sort of... stop asking questions just watch the door."

I have no idea what's going on but I'm getting really pissed off. Hubby tries to console me about the rhino. All I can hear is the freaking blender. He tells me he was sorry that I got involved but I needed to go relax while he finished. He sent me to swim with the whales.

Hubby: "Watch out for the sharks. They can be real assholes."

So I get my wet suit on and I jump on the whale's back. He's showing me around the whole ocean. No joke, we are having a blast. All of a sudden we just drop endlessly until BOOM! We hit the ocean floor. He says, "I love doing that. It's so much fun free falling." -_-

When I open my eyes after the whale started swimming again I got more scared. We were swimming straight towards the sharks. One of them gets really close so I head butted him. (Note, if you slam the nose of a shark, they get dizzy. One thing I did learn in HS biology.) Of course we got through the shark territory ok.

That's when I woke up with a sore neck and freaked out to see Hubby getting ready for work and told him how horrified I was of rhinos, whales and blenders.

I guess that's what I get for playing with Legos before I go to sleep.

Words that sound the same every time

When I'm helping my parents at their doughnut shop my friend would drop by to support the business. She'd sit back and eat her breakfast during the rush hour. She pulls me aside afterward and asked me, "Do you realize you say the same thing to every customer the same way in pitch and tone?"

Here's my weird list of "Lina doesn't know how else to say these things to strangers but to say them the same way every time repeatedly":

• Morning!
• Hi! How are you?
• Anything else?
  
• Ok, thank you! Have a good day.

Ok here are other words I say the same.

• WOW really? (sarcasm)
  
• Awesome!
• Hunnnnnnnnn (that's for Hubby)
• What are we going to eat? (that's in a serious tone)
• That's SO FUNNY!

Other things I say... I say things at least twice when I play volleyball.

• Short! Short!
• GO! GO! GO!
  
• mine mine mine mine mine
• out out out!
• tight tight!

Oh there is one word I don't say twice in volleyball and it goes like this:
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
(for all those people who steal my balls)

And now I realize that I should have did an audio blog for this one else it really doesn't make sense. I'll think about redoing it but this is what you get for now. I'm just making fun of myself.

Quicky Wednesday Post

It's today's snack.

Timing is everything...or is it?

I tweeted today that my mom called and said, "I forgot to invite you to your cousin's wedding. Ok bye!" She does that a lot and usually I don't mind because by then I've already made plans. You know my brother does the same thing but he'll text me, "Come over for crawfish almost done eating forgot to tell you" which I'll reply, "You suck! can't go."

Timing is everything. Isn't it so true with everything else, especially with advertising? Would you have run any marketing campaigns before North Carolina played Michigan Monday night for the NCAA championships? Maybe, if it made sense and your message didn't claim one as "the last one standing". But would you be running those same campaigns next week? Probably not since most people will be talking about the NBA play offs or the baseball season which just started. Most of the chatter would be today, tomorrow and then a little bit the rest of the week.

When's the right time? It depends. What are you selling or trying to promote? When are people thinking about buying that product? Are you there when the consumer is there? Did you tweet in time to be seen by your followers or did you tweet too early and it got lost in the stream? Does your facebook status update come up right when your friends or your fans sign on or did they get pushed down because you updated too soon? Do you know when you should actively update depending on when your followers/friends sign on? Does it matter because maybe those followers/friends look for your updates?

Or it doesn't matter because the more you get in people's faces the more they remember you and eventually when they need you, when they're searching for a product/service you provide they'll either remember you or hopefully see you on Google or even better they'll ask a friend and the friend will tell them to do business with you.

And of course there is the alternative option of doing something really outrageous to get as much attention as you possibly can as fast as you can for that... are you ready for it? wait for it, it's a good word... VIRAL campaign.

But here's some good advice "Never bank on media coverage and never, ever bank on viral," says Barak Kassar, president of Rassak Experience from Michael Estrin's How 5 brands scored free marketing.

Timing is everything...or is it? If you don't tell people what you have timing doesn't matter because they'll never know and they definitely won't try to find something they don't know exists.